On Saturday morning, August 9, 2014, the head of security at the Turf Club Chris Gordon picked up the newspapers, including a copy of The Irish Field, on his way to have breakfast with his mother in Raheny. Sitting in her front room in north Dublin, his eye was drawn to a picture of Noel Meade, president of the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA), and the headline: “We just don’t like to be treated like criminals”.  In what would prove to be a highly controversial interview, Meade delivered frank views about the programme of joint inspections of trainers’ stables that…

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